Nextjournal
Runs anything you can put into a Docker container. Improve your workflow with polyglot notebooks, automatic versioning and real-time collaboration. Save time and money with on-demand provisioning, including GPU support.
Nextjournal vs Querybook:
a side-by-side comparison for 2024
Comparing two data science notebooks.
Querybook
Querybook is Pinterest’s open-source big data IDE via a notebook interface.
Nextjournal
Querybook
Setup
Fully managed (setup in minutes)
No, you must host it yourself
Can you self-host?
Can you self-host?
No, you must use a managed offering
You can self-host (setup in hours)
Features
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Is it Jupyter compatible?
Jupyter-compatible
Not Jupyter-compatible
Programming languages
Programming languages
Jupyter languages (e.g. Python, R)
Python
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
What kind of data sources can you connect to?
Connect with Jupyter libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, psycopg2)
Connect to data warehouses (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, etc.)
Connect to databases (SQLite, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Connect to data warehouses (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, etc.)
Connect to databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc.)
What kind of data visualization can you do?
What kind of data visualization can you do?
Jupyter data visualization (e.g. Matplotlib, Altair, Plotly)
UI for building charts
Reactivity
Reactivity
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
No reactivity, you decide the execution order
Notebook scheduling is built in
Notebook scheduling is built in
Management
Reproducibility
Reproducibility
Environments are reproducible by default
Run notebooks in containers
With effort, you can make reproducible environments
Version history is built in
No version history
Multiple editors at the same time
Multiple editors at the same time
Comments
Comments
Comment on items within a notebook
No support for comments
Notebook organization
Notebook organization
View notebooks in a list
Unknown
Licensing
License
License
Proprietary
Open-source (Apache 2.0)
Price
Price
Free tier
Pay-per-user
Pay for compute
Free